The Campaign for TCU will reach its goal of $250 million ahead of schedule, Chancellor Victor Boschini said Tuesday at the annual University Convocation.

So far, the campaign has raised about $180 million, 72 percent of its $250 million target goal, with only 45 percent of the campaign period elapsed, Boschini said.

Don Whelan, vice chancellor for university advancement, said momentum created by students, athletics and the Commons project has been a large factor in the campaign's success.

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The football team's game against Stanford on Saturday will be more of a preview of TCU's upcoming season than its first two games have been, head coach Gary Patterson said Tuesday at the weekly media luncheon.

Patterson said both teams will have to play hard, and the game will be good preparation for later games against the University of Oklahoma and Brigham Young University,

"They're going to line up and say, 'Here we come, can you stop it?'" Patterson said about teams like Stanford, BYU and OU.

Editor's note: This story was edited for accuracy at 10:10 p.m. Tuesday. The Abilene Christian University chief information officer Kevin Roberts was misidentified.

TCU does not plan on following in the footsteps of Abilene Christian University by giving free electronic devices to students, a university official said.

This fall, ACU distributed a free Apple iPhone or an Apple iTouch to all 950-plus incoming freshmen.

With TCU football, there comes an end in the winter. With TCU basketball, there comes an end in the spring. With TCU baseball, there comes an end in the summer. With TCU tennis ... it never ends.

TCU students looking to play a sport, whether it may be for recreation or competition, can look no further than their own Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center, where collegiate tennis is played during the fall and spring. Horned Frog tennis players often hit the amateur circuit during the summer months.

The Fort Worth Independent School District was chosen to be one out of 24 school districts in the United States to receive a larger federal grant than it ever has before.

Thanks to that, TCU's art department was given $95,000.

The university, along with partners in Fort Worth's art community, will use the grant money to work toward holding professional summer camps for the next three years, giving educators an opportunity to be professionally trained in music, dance, drama and visual arts.

The art and art history department will receive a $95,000 federal grant to support a summer workshop program for art teachers working for the Fort Worth Independent School District, a U.S. congresswoman said.

Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, said at a press conference Friday that the money is a portion of a $941,570 federal grant for the Fort Worth ISD. The grant is the biggest federal grant for fine arts the school district has ever received, Granger said.

The Student House of Representatives met Tuesday for the first time this semester and unanimously passed two pieces of legislation in The Chambers on the third floor of the Brown-Lupton Student Union.One...

Free food, drinks and face painting attracted crowds of students to the Frog Frenzy tailgate party at the Campus Commons on Saturday despite suggestions that the new tailgate policy would lower attendance at the party.

With radio favorites playing in the background, students mingled with friends and grabbed a quick bite at the party before making their way to the football stadium.

A couple of students who began line dancing soon turned into a group of about 30 in their purple Class of 2012 T-shirts.

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